Biden and Trump each exposed their shortcomings in the first presidential debate

Beijing, June 28 — The current President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump, who are respectively targeting the nominations of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates of the United States, held the first televised debate of the 2024 presidential election on the 27th. The two elderly politicians had a fierce verbal battle, but also exposed their respective “shortcomings”: Biden was habitually “blurred”, while Trump continued to spread rumors. The first televised debate of the presidential election was held on the evening of the 27th in the studio of CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, a “swing state”. It lasted for 90 minutes and discussed multiple issues such as the economy, illegal immigration, the “Capitol Hill riots”, the Ukrainian crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and even whether the two’s advanced age affects their ability to perform their duties. This is the first time in nearly four years that Biden and Trump have faced each other face to face again. In order to avoid the chaotic scene of interrupting each other during the 2020 debate, according to the new rules required by Biden and accepted by Trump, when one person speaks, the microphone of the other person is muted; no audience is arranged on the scene. There was almost no scene of the two speaking at the same time throughout the debate, except near the end, Biden began to attack Trump’s weight, the other party responded, and the two then belittled each other’s golf skills. Trump said, “Let’s not act like little kids.” After Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Trump refused to attend Biden’s inauguration in January of the following year. In fact, since the end of the presidential campaign in late October 2020, the two have not spoken face to face again until this time on the same stage. The media noticed that the two did not shake hands as usual at the beginning of the debate, and this detail was enough to reflect their mutual disgust. During the debate, the two attacked each other even more about their performance in office and personal behavior, accusing each other of economic policies that led to high inflation in the United States, and calling each other the “worst” president in American history. Biden mentioned Trump’s scandal of having an affair with a porn star outside his marriage, attacking him as “like a wild cat (promiscuous)”, and emphasized that Trump would become the first felon among all the White House owners to be convicted of fraud in the case of paying a porn star “hush money”. Trump once again denied having an affair with a porn star, calling Biden a “disaster”, and mentioned that the Biden administration’s hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan was the “most embarrassing day” in American history.